James C. Squire, P.E., Ph.D.

Jim Squire is a full professor at VMI
with interests in engineering pedagogy (theory of teaching),
instrumentation, patent law, and biomedical engineering. He
graduated from West Point in 1989 and was awarded a Bronze
Star while serving in the Gulf War as a military
intelligence officer. He completed his doctorate at MIT
where he taught, consulted in patent litigation and
engineering, and performed biomedical engineering research.
He joined the VMI ECE faculty in 2000, received their
Distinguished Teaching Award in 2002, and in 2004 was
selected by the state of Virginia for the Virginia
Outstanding Faculty Award. In 2008 he joined the VMI Class
of 2009 as their Honorary Brother Rat. He teaches freshmen
through senior-level courses in circuits, programming, and
signal processing, supervises various independent research
and honors projects, and his research has led to seven
patents with more pending. He is co-founder of three
high-technology startups, MATTS LLC, Tick Rover LLC, and
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